Problem: missing required suite fields and broken references are easy to miss.
Mission: report metadata gaps without changing files.
In scope: required sections; artifact references; human and JSON output.
Out of scope: edits, moves, domain conformance certification.
Success: missing fields reported; documented exit codes; JSON stdout stays clean.
Failure: audit mutates files or silently ignores missing artifacts.
Risk: users confuse scaffold checks with full compliance.
Mitigation: state the limited scope in help and result notes.
Delivery: CTS (command consumed by operator/script).
Readiness: draft until full proposal and contract are reviewed.